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So it seems it is time for the annual spring planogram resets. Seasonal, toys and sporting goods are the areas most affected, but there are resets in most every department.
My job today when not doing carryouts: manually request the sections of spring and pool toys that the morning crew set, bring down the merchandise and fill those sections up.
Ye Gods, was everything fucked up. I had big boxed items which, according to the planogram, were to be hung on peghooks. There were no places to hang the boxes on the packaging and the little stick-on hooks we used just fell off because the boxes were too heavy. And it would also seem the approximations of packaging sizes on the planogram were conveniently misunderestimated, because by the time I finished everything was just squished on top of everything else; peghooks were heaving up because the products were touching the peghooks below them and boxes were having to be turned on their sides so they'd fit under the shelves.
It turns out our planograms are done via computer, not by arranging things on a gondola in the corporate office somewhere. So I imagine some suit is given a list of all the items that have to fit in a certain section and the number of facings for each item, and just noodles around until they manage to get everything to fit somehow.
The one good thing is corporate is not too anal about planograms being set exactly as sent out, unlike some places. As long as every item is represented and it looks halfway decent they're happy.
My job today when not doing carryouts: manually request the sections of spring and pool toys that the morning crew set, bring down the merchandise and fill those sections up.
Ye Gods, was everything fucked up. I had big boxed items which, according to the planogram, were to be hung on peghooks. There were no places to hang the boxes on the packaging and the little stick-on hooks we used just fell off because the boxes were too heavy. And it would also seem the approximations of packaging sizes on the planogram were conveniently misunderestimated, because by the time I finished everything was just squished on top of everything else; peghooks were heaving up because the products were touching the peghooks below them and boxes were having to be turned on their sides so they'd fit under the shelves.
It turns out our planograms are done via computer, not by arranging things on a gondola in the corporate office somewhere. So I imagine some suit is given a list of all the items that have to fit in a certain section and the number of facings for each item, and just noodles around until they manage to get everything to fit somehow.
The one good thing is corporate is not too anal about planograms being set exactly as sent out, unlike some places. As long as every item is represented and it looks halfway decent they're happy.
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